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European Central Bank has urged banks to step up their climate risk assessments, after major benchmarking exercise reveals sector is poorly prepared for escalating impacts

At G20 meeting in Venice, finance ministers conclude that climate pricing is among raft of tools that can be deployed to tackle climate change

Lawyers allege European Central Bank's quantitative easing programme undermines the EU’s emission reduction commitments because it favours high emitting companies

Despite growing focus on risk disclosure and green investing, few central banks have taken concrete actions to cut off support for fossil fuels, Positive Money claims

Research led by LSE and SOAS academics argues central banks hold significant sway over the wider financial system's ability to reach net zero

High street banks such as Barclays, HSBC and Standard Chartered are facing growing pressure from activists, shareholders and potentially regulators over their links to to coal and potential stranded asset risk

Chair of the International Monetary Fund promises to embed climate considerations into central bank thinking

New research suggests corporate bond purchases by central banks may be inadvertently backing carbon-intensive sectors